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Grand Valley State University Women's Center
Resources and What We Can Do
Take simple steps to practice sustainable living:
- Shop Fair Trade – visit The Bridge in Holland or Global Infusion in Grand Rapids. Many online stores also exist.
- Buy Locally – Find a farmers market or co-op to join, buy from those in the local area and promote healthy eating as well as producing practices
- Reduce your Carbon Footprint - Find out how at www.whatsmycarbonfootprint.com, carpool and support public transportation
- Unplug your Appliances – It may seem simple, but it lowers your bills and saves energy.
- Get Involved in your Community – Start/Join a Community Garden
- Promote Sustainable Policies – Encourage your politicians to pass sustainable laws, such as fair trade promotion, or safer health/working standards.
- STAY EDUCATED
Women’s Health and the Environment, provides toolkits on the issues, what you can do personally as well as what we as a community can do. Download them at http://womenshealthandenvironment.org
Articles and Information can be found at any of the following Websites:
Womenshealthandenvironment.org (Women’s Health and the Environment Homepage)
Cwpe.org (Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment Homepage)
Wedo.org (Women’s Environment and Development Organization Homepage)
Fairtradefederation.com (Fair Trade Federation Homepage)
Just a Few Authors/Books on Women and the Environment:
(many are available through the GVSU Libraries Website)
Sandra Steingraber – Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey to Motherhood, Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment, Post-Diagnosis
Wangari Maathai – Unbowed: A Memoir
Vandana Shiva – Water Wars, Stolen Harvest, Close to Home
Karen Warren – Ecofeminism: Women, Culture, Nature, Ecofeminist Philosophy
Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva – Ecofeminism
Rachel Carson- Silent Spring
Ewa Charkiewicz – Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development: Towards Theoretical Synthesis
Page last modified March 26, 2012
